Please sign the petition below. We will then email you when a pound seizure bill is introduced into the legislature, keep you posted on the bill's status, and let you know when your help is needed in contacting legislators.

TO MY LEGISLATOR: I want to see pound seizure banned in Minnesota.

Under Minnesota's "pound seizure" law (Minn. Stat. §35.71), any animal in a publicly funded shelter for more than five days can be claimed by a licensed institution for experimentation purposes.

Animal shelters serve the public good by caring for lost, injured, abandoned, and surrendered animals. Lost or homeless animals should either be put up for adoption or humanely euthanized, not released to institutions for experimentation.

Pound seizure jeopardizes public trust in shelters and places an unfair burden on animal control officers whose duty it is to safeguard human and animal life.

Please support a ban on pound seizure in Minnesota. Thank you.

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